Nice try Neal, but no, my rheumatism isn't too bad these days. I did manage to 
figure out what was causing this, and I'll pass it along to the group in  case 
anyone else has the same problem.

In System Preferences, under Universal Access, there is a button for "Trackpad 
Options…" Clicking that button brings up a window with a "Scrolling" checkbox. 
That checkbox had somehow gotten turned off, so I put a checkmark in it and now 
the two-finger scrolling is working again. I had never seen this option before. 
Another discovery is that it allows you to set it "with inertia" or "without 
inertia." I wasn't exactly sure what this meant but it became clear when I 
tried it both ways, which was pretty neat. I left it as "with inertia," which 
means that when you scroll with your fingers the window will keep scrolling for 
a bit after you let up, which feels more natural to me. The other setting will 
stop the scrolling as soon as your fingers stop. There also is a Scrolling 
Speed slider in that window.

Amazing the things you discover by just clicking around in these System 
Preferences.

Dan

> 
> On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
> 
>> Any ideas on why two-finger scrolling has stopped working on my MacBook Pro 
>> trackpad? I checked system preferences for the trackpad and everything seems 
>> to be checked as usual.
>> 
>> Could the problem be rheumatism? 
> 
>       Neal
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